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QUIZ
1. What are the two
remarkable powers of the
carnivorous plants known
as triffids in John
Wyndham’s The Day
of the Triffids?
2. In which tumultuous
historical event is
The Scarlet Pimpernel by
Emma Orczy set?
3. Who is the hapless
bookseller hero with the
ambition to become a
poet in George Orwell’s
1936 novel Keep the
Aspidistra Flying?
4. What is the title of the
first book in the Gothic
horror ‘Dollanganger’
series by V C Andrews?
5. Which 1998 book by
US journalist Susan
Orlean was adapted into
the 2002 movie Adaptation,
starring Meryl Streep?
6. What is the setting
for Umberto Eco’s first
novel, The Name of the Rose?
7. Who or what is the
Black Dahlia in James
Ellroy’s novel of the
same name, which was
based on a real-life
cr ime?
8. The 1948 novel
Peony by Nobel
Prize-winner Pearl S
Buck is about which
religious community
in China?
9. Which actor, who
played Hermione in
‘Harry Potter’ movies,
appeared in the movie
adaptation of Steven
Chbosky’s The Perks of
Being a Wallflower?
10. What type
of invasive tree,
commonly found
in vacant lots in
New York City, is
referred to in the
title of Betty Smith’s
1943 novel, A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn?
ANSWERS: 1. Locomotion and communication 2. The French Revolution 3. Gordon Comstock 4. Flowers in the Attic 5. The Orchid
Thief 6. An Italian monastery in the 14th century 7. A young woman whose mutilated body was found in a Los Angeles park
in 1947. The name ‘Black Dahlia’ was given to her posthumously by newspapers that gave nicknames to crimes they found
especially shocking. 8. The Jewish community 9. Emma Watson 10. Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
From cheerful, colourful adornments to menacing floral
monsters that eat people alive, plants and flowers have played
a big role in literature. In this month’s quiz we look at books with
the names of flowers or plants in their titles.
From cheerful, colourful adornments to menacing floral
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Flowers
& plants